http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/08/the-real-impact-of-sonys-mpeg-2-blu-ray-decision/ Engadget Comments for The real impact of Sony's MPEG-2/Blu-ray decision http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/08/the-real-impact-of-sonys-mpeg-2-blu-ray-decision/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/08/the-real-impact-of-sonys-mpeg-2-blu-ray-decision/Dec 8th 2005 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/08/the-real-impact-of-sonys-mpeg-2-blu-ray-decision/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/08/the-real-impact-of-sonys-mpeg-2-blu-ray-decision/
However, I really don't care what Bill Gates thinks about the viability of future disc media. The guy's company can't even make a secure operating system or web browser, and the world is starting to come to that conclusion. Windows is in decline, and Joe Consumer does not care about Windows Media formatted music or the MP3 players that are aligned with Microsoft's digital music strategies. The Motion (or is it Moving?) Pictures Expert Group came to the conclusion that Microsoft misled them on the capabilities of Windows Media Player 9 encoding (VC-1) so why would we want to see HD content in that format versus H.264?
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Is Sony wrong to go with MPEG2? Probably. It remains to be seen if it actually generates less artifacts (which I doubt) than better MPEG4/H.264 compression.

My point is, I think Microsoft is backing the wrong horse in this format war, and its compression is inferior. And I'm not going to shed a tear if Sony refuses to implement any of their technology into the Blu-Ray format. In fact, I applaud it. But yes, I don't like Sony clinging to the past with MPEG2. Show us video confirmed by an independent panel illustrating the actual benefits of HD content in MPEG2 over H.264; otherwise, they can stuff it. Its not like I was going to be buying *Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle* on Blu-Ray in either case. :)]]>Dec 9th 2005 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/08/the-real-impact-of-sonys-mpeg-2-blu-ray-decision/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/08/the-real-impact-of-sonys-mpeg-2-blu-ray-decision/Dec 15th 2005 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/08/the-real-impact-of-sonys-mpeg-2-blu-ray-decision/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/08/the-real-impact-of-sonys-mpeg-2-blu-ray-decision/Dec 15th 2005 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/08/the-real-impact-of-sonys-mpeg-2-blu-ray-decision/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/08/the-real-impact-of-sonys-mpeg-2-blu-ray-decision/
Then ther is the whole Media center thing with 1/2 terabyte drives from Samsung in the $500 range hold all the HD files you want and fully newtworkable.

Then add to this SAT, Cable HD PVR's with downloadable HD-VOD internal 80GB drives in addition to there 160BG - 250GB PVR HDD's .

Ciscotific Atlanta will be debuting HD PVR's with quad tuners with wirless networking and 250GB plus drives and DVD burners on board for archiving .

This will all come together in a model for Hollywood delivery on theatrical run movies to the home HD-VOD with paid for 2 viewing license and after theater run is over permanent archive purchase.

Where does Bluray / HD-DVD fit into this well as a home archiver once the price folds due to know one buying them :)]]>Dec 10th 2005 4:59PM